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Over 12 years' worth of dangerous ideas to read, listen and watch. Hear from our festival alumni as they share provocative ideas through our collection of articles, podcasts and videos.
Saree Makdisi - Tolerance is a Wasteland (2024)
David Baddiel - The God Desire (2024)
Coleman Hughes & Josh Szeps - A Colourblind Society (2024)
Jen Gunter - Lifting the Curse (2024)
The Pitchforks are Coming - Myra Hamilton, Carl Rhodes & Jordan van den Berg (2024)
Speaking Bluntly - Antoinette Lattouf, Andy Mills & Josh Szeps (2024)
David Runciman - Votes for 6 year olds (2024)
Counterfeit People - Lizzie O’Shea, Patrick Stokes & Emily van der Nagel (2024)
Uncancelled Culture - David Baddiel, Roxane Gay, Andy Mills, Megan Phelps-Roper & Tim Dean (2024)
Ending the 'tyranny' of pregnancy - Luara Ferracioli, Brigitte Gerstl, Mianna Lotz & Kathryn MacKay (2024)
Democracy is not worth dying for - Geraldine Doogue, Masha Gessen, Paul Ham & David Runciman (2024)
Breaking Together - Jem Bendell (2024)
Contagious realities - Alice Dawkins, Natasha Mitchell, Sandersan Onie, Jean Twenge & Sonny Jane Wise (2024)
Positive Masculinity - Monty Badami, Tarang Chawla, Michael Flood & Anna Krien (2024)
Masha Gessen - The War of the Narratives (2024)
Art is always political - Louise Adler, Brook Garru Andrew, Violette Ayad, Gil Beckwith, Simon Longstaff & Emile Sherman (2024)
Wrecking the world order - Matt Bevan, Avani Dias, Cheng Lei, Hamish Macdonald & Johanna Weaver (2024)
Tariq Ali - The Twilight of Democracy (FODI 2015)
Freedom: The most dangerous idea of all - Germaine Greer (2009)
Break a Rule a Day - Lionel Shriver (2016)
Dennis Glover - Winners and Losers (FODI 2015)
WikiLeaks Has Not Gone Far Enough - Julian Assange (2011)
Molly Crabapple - From the Frontline (FODI 2016)
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Peter Greste, Ian Kemish & Sangeetha Pillai - Expendable Australians (FODI 2022)
Tats, trust and taking risks: Whole Glory one year on
Badiucao, Dan Ilic & Cathy Wilcox - Drawing Truth to Power (FODI 2022)
We are turning into subscription slaves
Steven Pinker - Enlightenment or Dark Age? (FODI 2022)
Trigger warnings: Don’t leave before I’ve had the chance to upset you
Jayne Crossling, Emma A. Jane, Georgia Naldrett & Michael Salter - Harmful Thoughts (FODI 2022)
Faking It: AI must be deceptive
Daniel Browning, Corrie Chen, Coby Edgar & Luara Ferracioli - Stealing Culture (FODI 2022)
Claire G. Coleman - Words are Weapons (FODI 2022)
Frances Haugen, Scott Hargreaves, Sam Mostyn & Carl Rhodes - Just be Evil (FODI 2022)
Inequality is led by corporations
Joanna Bourke - Last Taboo (FODI 2022)
Are you a lone wolf, or a sheeple?
Frances Haugen - Unmasking Facebook (FODI 2022)
Is ‘shame’ the key to a world without rape?
Jane Caro, Osher Günsberg, Yasmin Poole, Kevin Roose & Alok Vaid-Menon - Join the Rebellion (FODI 2022)
Is it possible to bring the two halves of America back together?
Joanna Bourke, Jess Hill, Sisonke Msimang, Saxon Mullins & Bronwyn Penrith - World Without Rape (FODI 2022)
AI is not the real enemy of artists
Wenlei Ma, Kate McClymont, Ann Mossop & Don Weatherburn - The Crime Paradox (FODI 2022)
Sisonke Msimang – Precious White Lives (FODI 2022)
Kevin Roose - Caught in a web (FODI 2022)
Ruth Ben-Ghiat - Return of the Strongman (FODI2022)
Who’s afraid of the strongman?
Nick Bryant, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Geraldine Doogue & Adam Tooze - American Decadence (FODI 2022)
Adam Tooze - F=Fail (FODI 2022)
Appreciation or appropriation? The impacts of stealing culture
Jacqui Lambie - On Blowing Things Up (FODI 2022)
Why would you get a tattoo by an artist you’ve never met?
5 things we learnt from FODI22
Masha Gessen & Tom Switzer - Putin (FODI 2014)
We are being saturated by knowledge. How much is too much?
Ukraine Hacktivism
Jesse Bering - We Are All Sexual Perverts (FODI 2012)
Periods, taboos and vaccines: Teaching women to listen to their bodies
Endtropy
Waleed Aly & Naomi Klein - Our entanglements have been exposed
Revivification
S. Matthew Liao & John Rasko - Immortality, fraud and the future of the human species
Tongues
Roxane Gay & Kate Manne - The mild terror of publishing feminist cultural criticism
Semi-Autonomous
Joanna Bourke & Toby Walsh - Killer robots and the human construction of war
The Dancer
Eleanor Gordon-Smith & Slavoj Žižek - The age of doubt, reason and conspiracy
Within Salt
To see no longer means to believe
Lee Vinsel & Tyson Yunkaporta - A gradual decline into disorder
Anthropocene
Sam Mostyn & Peter Singer - We have failed to protect those who don’t yet exist
Light Shines
Joya Chatterji & Stephen Fry - There is no beginning
Elizabeth Pisani - Corruption Makes the World Go Round (FODI 2014)
QAnon and My Life As An Internet Folk Villain
2021’s most dangerous reads
Anti-natalism: The case for not existing
A.C. Grayling - Bad Education (FODI 2015)
Tim Flannery, Alok Jha, Natasha Mitchell & Lee Vinsel - Don't Trust the Scientists (FODI 2016)
Interrogating our vaccine fetish
Dangerous ideas and pseudonyms
Chris Berg - Nanny State (FODI 2015)
Vaccines: compulsory or conditional?
Erwin James - A Killer Can Be a Good Neighbour (FODI 2013)
Jesse Bering, Raewyn Connell Cordelia Fine & Elizabeth Anne Riley - Gender Doesn't Matter (FODI 2016)
Satyajit Das - The Bill Is Due (FODI 2016)
Dangerous Fictions
Pop Culture and the Limits of Social Engineering
Misinformation is Infectious
The Truth About China
Kevin Rudd on the truth about China
Ageing is a Disease
Lionel Shriver - Break A Rule A Day (FODI 2016)
Settler rage and our inherited national guilt
No justice, no peace in healing Trump’s America
Market logic can’t survive a pandemic
Treating citizens as customers is a recipe for distrust
Narcissists aren’t born, they’re made
Stolen Inheritance
It’s time to take citizenship seriously again
Enwhitenment: utes, philosophy and the preconditions of civil society
Tim Flannery, Elizabeth Kolbert, Steven Pinker, Jaan Tallinn – The End of the World as We Know It (FODI 2014)
Helen Joyce - The Right To Die (FODI 2015)
Edward Snowden - Surveillance States (FODI Digital 2020)
Marcia Langton - Dangerous Fictions (FODI Digital 2020)
Eric Schlosser - Nuclear Delusions (FODI 2015)
Lydia Cacho – Slavery Is Big Business (FODI 2014)
Ethics of the Pandemic
Lee Vinsel - Innovation Fetish (FODI 2016)
Sarai Walker - Radical Fat Acceptance (FODI 2015)
Daisy Jeffrey, Audrey Mason-Hyde & Dylan Storer - Stolen Inheritance (FODI Digital 2020)
Claire Wardle & Ariel Bogle - Misinformation is Infectious (FODI Digital 2020)
Matt Beard, Eleanor Gordon-Smith & Bryan Mukandi - Ethics of the Pandemic (FODI Digital 2020)
David Sinclair with Norman Swan - Ageing is a Disease (FODI Digital 2020)
Alicia Garza and Stan Grant - Why Black Lives Matter (FODI 2016)
Jennifer Rayner - Generation Less (FODI 2016)
Michael Wesley - Feudal World (FODI 2015)
S.Matthew Liao - Engineer Humans To Stop Climate Change (FODI 2013)
Mona Eltahawy - Hypocrisy Rhymes with Democracy (FODI 2011)
Political Correct-mess - Kevin Donnelly, Chris Kenny, Antoinette Lattouf, Lauren Rosewarne (FODI Digital 2020)
Alok Jha - Water Wars (FODI 2016)
Snap Back To Reality - Stan Grant, Rebecca Huntley, Tim Soutphommasane (FODI Digital 2020)
Stolen Inheritance - Daisy Jeffrey, Audrey Mason-Hyde and Dylan Storer (FODI Digital 2020)
The Future Is History - Masha Gessen in conversation with Hamish Macdonald (FODI Digital 2020)
Ageing Is A Disease - David Sinclair in conversation with Dr. Norman Swan (FODI Digital 2020)
States Of Surveillance - Angie Abdilla, Ellen Broad and Mark Pesce (FODI Digital 2020)
The Truth About China - Jason Yat-Sen Li, Kevin Rudd, Yaqui Wang, Vicky Xiuzhong Xu, Peter Harcher (FODI Digital 2020)
Ethics Of The Pandemic - Matt Beard, Eleanor Gordon-Smith and Bryan Mukandi (FODI Digital 2020)
Misinformation Is Infectious - Claire Wardle in conversation with Ariel Bogle (FODI Digital 2020)
Slavoj Žižek - Let us be realists and demand the impossible (FODI 2011)
Helen Razor - Against Compassion (FODI 2015)
David Simon - Some People Are More Equal Than Others (FODI 2014)
Tim Harford - Make More Mistakes (FODI 2012)
Anne Manne - The Narcissism Epidemic (FODI 2014)
A.C Grayling - Closing the Modern Mind (FODI 2016)
Christopher Hitchens - Religion Poisons Everything (FODI 2009)
Evgeny Morozov - The Dark Side of the Internet (FODI 2013)
Dee Mandigan - The Propaganda Machine (FODI 2016)
Philippe Legrain - Open the Borders (FODI 2016)
Vandana Shiva - Growth = Poverty (FODI 2013)
Jon Ronson - Psychopaths & Shame Culture (FODI 2011 & 2015)
Hanna Rosin - The End of Men (FODI 2013)
Kajsa Ekis Ekman - Surrogacy is Child Trafficking (FODI 2014)
Sam Harris - The Delusion of Free Will (FODI 2012)
Naomi Klein - Capitalism and the Climate (FODI 2014)
Ayelet Waldman - LSD: Forbidden Medicine (FODI 2018)
Rehearsal for Facism - Pankaj Mishra, Angela Nagle & Tim Soutphommasane (FODI 2018)
Zeynep Tufekci - Our Attention Has Been Stolen (FODI 2018)
Angela Nagle - Kill All Normies (FODI 2018)
Dee Madigan, John Hewson & Rebecca Huntley - Cancer on Democracy (FODI 2018)
Zhao Hai, Linda Jakobson & Adam Ni - Choose China (FODI 2018)
Pankaj Mishra - Age of Anger (FODI 2018)
Zeynep Tufekci & Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - Privacy is Selfish (FODI 2018)
Haris Aziz, Khandis Blake, Lee Rollins & Martina Stenzel - Fight the Fear (FODI 2018)
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - Everybody Lies (Except the Internet) (FODI 2018)
Niall Ferguson - Post Populism (FODI 2018)
Rob Brooks, Nikki Goldstein & Xanthe Mallett - Sex Robots Have No Taboos (FODI 2018)
Toby Walsh - The End of the World (As We Know It) (FODI 2018)
Germaine Greer, Ayelet Waldman & Megan Phelps-Roper - Too Dangerous (FODI 2018)
Chuck Klosterman - What if we're wrong? (FODI 2018)
Stephen Fry - The Hitch (FODI 2018)
Destroy Fitness Culture
Tech companies are not your friends
On not looking sick
Stop treating my Muslim children as though they’re future extremists
Our bodies and minds are not datasets
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